Mike Huckabee in 2015 RedState Gathering

On Homeland Security: No paid transgender surgery for members of the military

The annual RedState Gathering saw nine Republican candidates expand on the hard-right positions they had taken at their first debate last week. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee used his speech to deride paid transgender surgery for members of the military--an applause line--and to say that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution could be used to define full legal personhood as starting at the moment of conception. Source: Australian Financial Review on 2015 GOP RedState Gathering Aug 9, 2015

On Abortion: End Planned Parenthood funding by tying to debt limit vote

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee used his speech to say that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution could be used to define full legal personhood as starting at the moment of conception. In a news conference after the speech, Huckabee stopped short of explaining how this would work. "You're going to actually start protecting those people who are unborn," he said. "It's not to criminalize people, certainly not mothers. You make it a federal policy that you protect these lives. A lot of the details I'll reveal at the time that I get to be president. I don't want to be coy. I just don't want to get stuck in the weeds."

No 2016 rival endorsed Huckabee's theory of the law. All of them had at least one idea for breaking up Washington's norms. Before the conference began, the moderator had promised to ask candidates to commit to ending all funding for Planned Parenthood. Almost everyone was for it; Huckabee wanted to tie the funding quest to a debt limit vote instead.

Source: Washington Post on 2015 GOP candidate RedState Gathering Aug 8, 2015

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